CalTrans water truck rolls over

A water truck that rolled over into a deep ditch on Highway 14, near Robbers Roost, resulted in minor injuries and a subsequent ambulance ride for one California Department of Transportation employee.

By Mike BodineNEWS WRITER

A water truck that rolled over into a deep ditch on Highway 14, near Robbers Roost, resulted in minor injuries and a subsequent ambulance ride for one California Department of Transportation employee. CalTrans employee Rick Goldie, was transported via ambulance to Ridgecrest Regional Hospital.The California Highway Patrol received a call of an overturned water truck south of the Highway 178 turnoff just before noon on Wednesday. CHP and Kern County Fire responded to the scene. CalTrans erected a digital display warning traffic of the accident.CalTrans Public Information Officer Florene Trainor, said Wednesday that the accident occurred while a maintenance crew from Inyokern was working on the shoulder of Hwy 14's southbound lane. CHP Officer Dan Lilly explained that Goldie was backing up a water truck northbound on the southbound lanes spraying water. Goldie didn't see or didn't remember that a large culvert jetted out close to the paved shoulder and the truck's right wheels slipped into the ditch. The truck came to rest on its right side. Goldie had to be extracted from the vehicle. Lilly added that Pearsonville Towing extracted the Quinn Rental water truck from the culvert ditch.